CPOM Staff based at UCL

Andy Ridout

Andy
Ridout joined CPOM in September 2003 as a Research Fellow in the Department
of Space and Climate Physics, University College London.

He obtained an Upper
Second Class Honours Degree in Physics from Girton College, Cambridge University
in 1987, and a Master of Science Degree in Exploration Geophysics from Imperial
College, London, in 1988.

Prior to taking up his present position he worked
for four years as a Geophysicist for the Shell International Petroleum Company
in the Netherlands. He then joined spent three years at the Mullard Space
Science Laboratory working for the Department of Space and Climate Physics
at UCL on measuring the Antarctic mass balance from ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellite
altimetry data. After leaving MSSL he spent six years as a Software Engineer
writing seismic data processing software for Ensign Geophysics, a seismic
data processing company.

Since returning to UCL he has been developing a method
to retrieve Arctic ice thicknesses from Envisat satellite altimetry data.